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Friday, January 08, 2016

Repeated crushing by alligators and crocodiles: ICD-10 has you covered. Harmed by bad health IT? No codes for that.

Your government at work, spending your tax dollars and making your doctors want to retire early due to increasing bureaucratic busywork.
The new ICD-10 coding system they must now use has codes like these, in
case you get attacked by a crocodile or alligator.

It even has codes
for repeat crushing by the critters...

Notably missing: there are no codes
for harms caused by defective, mis-designed or badly implemented
electronic medical records/ordering/lab review systems, which are occurring as documented in numerous posts on this blog. (My mother would comment, but she is deceased from ICD-10 code ...uh, oh wait, no code for that...)

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